Douglas Adams Quotes

English - Writer March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001 Read full biography

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams

Integrity, Service, Money, You, Real

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams

Funny, Love, Fly, Sound, Deadlines, Like

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Flying, Miss, Ground

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

Experience, Unique, Learn, Human, Others

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams

Dreams, Wife, Dreamer, Idiot, Thinker

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams

Mistake, Think, Problems, You, Potatoes

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. Douglas Adams

Weather, You, Farmer, Complaining, Fix

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams

Mistake, People, Design, Trying, Fools

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams

Angry, Beginning, People, Universe, Bad

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark. Douglas Adams

Time, Ocean, Long, Better, Sharks, Shark

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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams

Fly, Order, Miss, Ground, Must, Simply

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams

Think, Go, Up, Gone, Where, May

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams

Universe, Why, Will, More, Disappear

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. - Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams

End, Go, Need, Up, Always, Where

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams

Family, Bird, Small, Duck, Hands, Looks

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams

Job, People, Want, President, Capable

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams

Rain, Fish, Judge, Think, Nice, Who Am I

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. Douglas Adams

Integrity, Impossible, Kind, Often

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Douglas Adams

You, Problem, Anything, Own, Repeat

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. Douglas Adams

Trust, Politics, People, Brain, You, Why

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. Douglas Adams

Mirror, You, Pictures, Tell, Out, Give

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Flying, Miss, Ground

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication. Douglas Adams

Work, Communication, Science, Together

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. Douglas Adams

Interesting, Think, Worth, Enough, Media

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams

Live, You, Learn, Any, Rate

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams

Thursday, Never, Get, Hang, Must, Could

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